1. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Multimedia Robots for Computer Science Education Dr. Illah Nourbakhsh and Tom Lauwers Center for Innovative Robotics

2. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Robots as Educational Tools

3. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 High School Robotics Programs

4. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 TeRK – the Telepresence Robot Kit We strongly believe that robotics can be used as a tool to educate and motivate students across a wide variety of topics and ages. Emerging technologies are enabling us to simultaneously lower costs and increase functionality. The Turk A “TeRK”

5. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 TeRK - Capabilities With a TeRK, you can connect: One webcam One wireless adapter Speakers Four DC motors Eight LEDs Eight analog sensors Sixteen servos

6. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 TeRK Projects Curricular Modules for Introduction to Computer Science Robot Diary Network Neighborhoods Online Community Building and Recipe Creation

7. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Intro to CS Curricula Create curricular modules for the following CS topics: Simple I/O, Flow Control, Arrays, File read/write, and Errors and exceptions Modules will include robot centered assignments and activities

8. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Robot Diary Currently engaged in participatory design sessions with middle school girls Design sessions will inform a future robot design that allows girls to express emotion and communicate with their friends through the robot

9. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Network Neighborhoods Provide high school students with environmental sensors and wireless technology to deploy environmental monitoring stations Students will also be tasked with creating artistic public displays to express the information that their monitoring stations collect

10. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Community Website and Recipes TeRK Website

11. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Teleop Demo

12. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Your Turn! Modify the sample program to cause the robot to react to certain colors How the robot reacts is up to you, but we suggest something obvious. Doing nothing is not an acceptable reaction.

13. CS4HS Workshop, July 23, 2006 Additional Information Contact Tom Lauwers for questions about curricula or sample programs: tlauwers@andrew.cmu.edu Check the TeRK website every few months – we are actively generating new recipes, software, and curricula: http://www.terk.ri.cmu.edu